Lombers

Lombers
Coat of arms
Lombers
Location within Midi-Pyrénées region  Lombers
Coordinates: 43°48′18″N 2°09′03″E / 43.805°N 2.1508°ECoordinates: 43°48′18″N 2°09′03″E / 43.805°N 2.1508°E
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Tarn
Arrondissement	Albi
Canton	Réalmont
Intercommunality	Réalmontais
Area^1	38.79 km^2 (14.98 sq mi)
Population (2006)^2	1,003
• Density	26/km^2 (67/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	81147 / 81120
Elevation	177–321 m (581–1,053 ft) (avg. 1,911 m or 6,270 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Lombers is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.

History

Lombers was the significant centre of Catharism in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. It was the location of a Catholic-Cathar debate, perhaps in the 1180s, between Guillaume Peyre de Brens, Catholic bishop of Albi, and Sicard le Cellerier, Cathar bishop of Albi; Sicard lived at Lombers.^[1]

Geography

The commune is traversed by the river Assou.

See also

• Communes of the Tarn department

References

• INSEE

1. Duvernoy, Jean, editor (1976), Guillaume de Puylaurens, Chronique 1145-1275: Chronica magistri Guillelmi de Podio Laurentii, Paris: CNRS, ISBN 2-910352-06-4 pp. 40-43.